My review of Daniel Sluman’s Pain Songs @ninearchespress.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/p...

My review of Rishi Dastidar's Cherry Blossom Night Break @ninearchespress.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/c...

Great list of poetry blogs from @davebonta.bsky.social

No Bodacious rose today but a sunflower painting from The Stairway Project. Good to share "The Landmarks Change when you walk home" & "The Shoemakers' Walk", the latter in honour of the 500 who left Leicester to march on Lomdon to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed in June 1905.

Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are rampant. Here’s the latest list of scammers: [email protected] lucinda.game@yahoo.com #bookmarketingscam #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #amediting #fiction #authors #shortstory #booksky

Moving at summer’s pace, an animal made of departure, and much more with @emmalee1.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @collinkelley.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

My review of Su Cho's The Symmetry of Fish emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/t...

Good to see Immortal Until the Rain anthology with my shortlisted poem “Comfort is a Sweet Note of Gochujang” is now available from: www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...

A ball and some grass, the uncertain horizon, ghost metaphors, the film of familiarity and much more with @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

My review of Suyin du Bois' Eating Air @theemmapress.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/e...

My review of Patricia Smith's The Intentions of Thunder @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/t...

Summertime is writing time for poets @emmalee1.bsky.social @lisabrockwell.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social @dylan20.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

A fine new review up on the site now! @emmalee1.bsky.social in praise of Jeremy Dixon/ @hazardpressuk.bsky.social's 'The Beat The Pulse The Wave' (@arachnepress.bsky.social). Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/emma-lee-on-... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Review #PoetryReview

Thanks so much @emmalee1.bsky.social for this gorgeous review of my new collection, which includes some close reading and interpretation of a number of poems. 🥁📈🌊

My poem "A Rhizomic Persuasion" is a Guest Poem at Acumen acumen-poetry.co.uk/emma-lee/

My review of Jeremy Dixon's The Beat The Pulse The Wave @arachnepress.bsky.social published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk inksweatandtears.co.uk/emma-lee-on-...

My review of Kate Maxwell's Thistle emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/t...

During July and August 2026 Leicester Writers' Club opens for Guests. Hybrid meetings: attend in person or via Zoom. If wanting to attend via Zoom, please contact the club for the meeting link. leicesterwritersclub.com/contact-us/ @writingeastmidlands.com

This week in the poetry blogs with @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

Delighted to see Outposts #2 with my poems “Can your see Ada Lovelace Drive from up there?” and “Brownies make everything better” in excellent company with thanks to editor Clare Morris.

My review of Chen Yuhong’s Impossible Paradise (Carcanet) translated by George O’Connell and Diana Shi. emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/i...

A curated list of poetry blogs with thanks to @davebonta.bsky.social

Delighted to receive my copy of "Mingled Voices 10" featuring winners and shortlisted poems including my "I hold half a pair of off-white boots" from the Proverse Poetry Competition (poem deliberately blurred in image below)

This week in the poetry blogs with @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

My review of Into the Hush by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze: emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/i...

My review of Edward Ragg's Material Witness emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/m...

Guest Speaker Rebecca Fallon Thursday 14 May 7-9pm hybrid: join via Zoom or at Phoenix Leicester, details: leicesterwritersclub.com/2026/04/03/r...

Diamonds aren't forever & other truth-bombs with @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

#NaPoWriMo day 30 poem 32 “A Strange Pram”

#NaPoWriMo day 29 poems 29-31 “Camp March Hare”, “Pearls & Chrysanthemums” & “From a Tent in Scraptoft to a Medal of Honor”

#NaPoWriMo day 28 poem 28 “Housing Snakes and Ladders”

Delighted to see a page of 3 of my poems, "Parent as if you don't have a job, work as if you're not a parent", Imagine a weekday, say Thursday? & Sunlight is the best bleach in AEOS with thanks to the editors.

#NaPoWriMo day 27 poems 27 a short sequence of poems about important views, “Elegant Sentinel”, “Outside the Hall”, “Routes out of the city”, “Survival is more than living”, “A wildlife corridor” & “Work Starts with Play”

#NaPoWriMo day 26 poem 26 “Designed to be Ignored”

A Bodacious rose for sharing a couple ilof jazz inspired poems in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald whose birthday was yesteeday

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - A Seamstress's Tea Break by @emmalee1.bsky.social

#NaPoWriMo day 25 poem 25 “Multi-purpose” (holding title, will be changed)

Delighted to see my poem A Seamstress's Tea Break published in Atrium Poetry with thanks to the editors:

#NaPoWriMo day 24 poem 24 “Separation” (holding title, will be changed)

#NaPoWriMo day 23 poem 23 “Monitoring the Junction”

#NaPoWriMo day 22 poem 22 “History and Service”

#NaPoWriMo day 21 poem 21 “Waiting, just in case”

#NaPoWriMo day 20 poem 20 “You’d notice it more if it wasn’t there”

#NaPoWriMo day 19 poem 19 “Remarkable if you look closely”

#NaPoWriMo day 18 poem 18 “Unsuitable for Small Children”

#NaPoWriMo day 17 poem 17 “I’m the place where the story is written, not the story”

#NaPoWriMo day 16 poem 16 “On Balance”

My review of Li Er's "Cherries on a Pomegranate Tree" translated by Dave Haysom @sinoistbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/c...

#NaPoWriMo day 15 poem 15 “Daisies and Thermoplastic Paint”

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair on Saturday 25 April: hope to see you there. St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...